14 months ago, sick in bed with COVID, I checked my home institution’s Twitter account to find 3 photos of Secretary Rice normalizing a Trumpette (governor of SD) by taking her seriously as someone who belonged on stage at Hoover. In that moment, I basically lost my faith in the future of our democracy. If a century-old institution that exists to oppose threats to liberalism is caving to the demands of an authoritarian cult, we could be doomed. I choose to believe we are not.
Americans Are Sleepwalking Through a National Emergency
Serious times require serious citizens.
theatlantic.com